TransPerfect buys San Francisco-based TranslateNow in first acquisition since legal battle ended. Sales up 21% to USD 275m in first five months of 2018 as execs who had left in protest over Lionbridge bid begin to return. Continue reading
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Police arrest man for possession of 14 pounds of illegal drugs, but the case does not hold up in court because Google Translate was used to ask the defendant for permission to search his vehicle. Continue reading
New vice presidents join Versacom and United Language Group while Transglobal Inc. and ITS Traductions welcome senior managers. Continue reading
Professor Laura Burian, the new dean of the Middlebury Institute’s Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education, says her priority is to adapt the curriculum to prepare students to lead in a rapidly evolving language and technology market. Continue reading
SlatorCon London 2018 was a spectacular display of the breadth and depth of the language industry, uniting a diverse mix of industry stakeholders from end buyers, vendor CEOs, analysts, and investment bankers involved in industry M&A. Here’s what you missed if you weren’t there. Continue reading
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Some familiar names helped pushed May 2018 to the top of the charts in terms of neural machine translation research. Meanwhile, the hottest research trends appear to be the race to better quality and translating low-resource, non-Latin languages. Continue reading
One Hour Translation CEO Ofer Shoshan says that the future is one of blockchain-powered translation pipelines where clients can view the entire process and trace issues to their root causes, addressing them more simply, quickly, and effectively. Continue reading
Muslim dating app Muzmatch will launch in 12 languages this week. The London-based firm behind the app has raised USD 1.75m in seed investment and is expanding to reach over 300 million target users globally. Continue reading
Hansel, the Finnish government’s centralized procurement unit, has just announced contract awards to a total of 12 providers for a justice and litigation services and interpretation tender, worth EUR 24m (USD 28.3m). Continue reading
One of the senior representatives of the English judicial system wades into the machine translation debate by predicting AI will replace interpreters in the courtroom. Continue reading
Will TransPerfect defend the number one position in 2018? And why are Anglo-American LSPs dominating the Slator LSPI? What will Brexit mean for English use in the EU? Any why buyers choose to bring more of the supply chain in-house. Continue reading
In the first half of its 2018 financial year, RWS posts revenues of GBP 139.6m and a pre-tax profit of GBP 28.6m. While acquisitions drive revenue growth, the core patent translation business generates the majority of profits. Shares pop 10% following the results. Continue reading
As Facebook faces fundamental questions about its business model, understanding what content is being shared on the platform has become a top priority. With more than 2 billion monthly active users, language tech will play the decisive role. Continue reading
EA Senior Localization Director Michaela Bartelt-Krantz discussed the game giant’s supply chain, partnership strategies, and her vision of the future of game localization at the recent SlatorCon London 2018. Continue reading
170,000 pages of translation, 20,000 hours of interpretation, and foreign language training for hundreds of people every year. That’s the operational challenge facing the new Head of Germany’s Federal Office of Languages. Continue reading
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